puf(1)

puf1

Http client for parallel downloading

Usage

puf [options] url [url ...]

Overview

puf is a program similar to GNU wget. The main difference is that puf tries to download as many urls as possible in parallel.

The available options vary between different versions. Simply run `puf -h' to get a list of available options.

Releases

11 releases since Debian 3.0 (Woody); the text changed 2 times.

  1. 3.0
  2. 3.1–5.0
  3. 6.0–12

-F until Debian 3.0 (Woody); -O until Debian 3.0 (Woody); -P until Debian 3.0 (Woody); -Q until Debian 3.0 (Woody); -Qt until Debian 3.0 (Woody); -Qu until Debian 3.0 (Woody); -Tc until Debian 3.0 (Woody); -Td until Debian 3.0 (Woody); -Tl until Debian 3.0 (Woody); -U until Debian 3.0 (Woody); -c until Debian 3.0 (Woody); -d until Debian 3.0 (Woody); -h until Debian 3.0 (Woody); -i until Debian 3.0 (Woody); -iU until Debian 3.0 (Woody); -ib until Debian 3.0 (Woody); -lb until Debian 3.0 (Woody); -lc until Debian 3.0 (Woody); -ld until Debian 3.0 (Woody); -ll until Debian 3.0 (Woody); -nR until Debian 3.0 (Woody); -na until Debian 3.0 (Woody); -nb until Debian 3.0 (Woody); -nc until Debian 3.0 (Woody); -nd until Debian 3.0 (Woody); -nf until Debian 3.0 (Woody); -ng until Debian 3.0 (Woody); -nh until Debian 3.0 (Woody); -ni until Debian 3.0 (Woody); -ns until Debian 3.0 (Woody); -nt until Debian 3.0 (Woody); -nw until Debian 3.0 (Woody); -p until Debian 3.0 (Woody); -r until Debian 3.0 (Woody); -r+ until Debian 3.0 (Woody); -r++ until Debian 3.0 (Woody); -ri until Debian 3.0 (Woody); -t until Debian 3.0 (Woody); -u until Debian 3.0 (Woody); -v until Debian 3.0 (Woody); -vv until Debian 3.0 (Woody); -vvv until Debian 3.0 (Woody); -xE until Debian 3.0 (Woody); -xH until Debian 3.0 (Woody); -xb until Debian 3.0 (Woody); -xd until Debian 3.0 (Woody); -xe until Debian 3.0 (Woody); -xg until Debian 3.0 (Woody); -xi until Debian 3.0 (Woody); -y until Debian 3.0 (Woody); -yi until Debian 3.0 (Woody).

Bugs

Entries in your /etc/hosts file will confuse the alias detection for the listed hosts. Workaround: do not use aliases, but only the primary name on the command line.

When continuing a download, ALL already complete files are scanned for links, as we have no reliable means of detecting the file type.

Please report bugs to Oswald Buddenhagen <[email protected]>

From puf 1.0.0-7+b2 in Debian 12 (Bookworm). Parsed by carta from the page's man source.